Sentence examples for form of subversion from inspiring English sources

Is magic not the most dangerous form of subversion?

The clinical insanity that seems to afflict him onscreen is itself a form of subversion.

She said: "It includes elements that define criticism of the government as a form of subversion".

In the nineteen-fifties, a small minority saw the introduction of fluorides into the water system as yet another form of subversion.

Where youngsters once knuckled down in the hope of a lifetime position at Toyota or Fujitsu, diminished prospects prompted them into a very Japanese form of subversion – wearing outlandish clothes and pink hair dye.

"Language has always been a form of subversion... a kind of shorthand that connects you to your circle of friends... and ultimately a way of getting the last laugh," explains Amy Sohn, author of "Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell," the official companion book to the show.

All the Americans have been convicted of espionage or various forms of subversion.

It was a very Seventies form of artistic subversion – pure concept and stripped of nearly all craft.

At times they also embraced a new form of poetic subversion by which the praise characterizing the traditional lyric was replaced by its traditional opposite hiciv, the poetry of satire.

Perhaps the point of Banksy's art is that it inhales the wild spirit of forgery: his work makes free with brand identities and the symbols of authority, it replicates them, debunks and devalues them, it is a form of benign subversion.

There has long been a strain of subversion in picture books — think of Maurice Sendak and Tomi Ungerer, among others — alongside the dominant anodyne snuggliness of the form.